¹ Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

² Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Judeans, do not eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

⁴ They do not eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, and bronze vessels¹.)

1. M TR add "and couches"

⁵ The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

⁶ He¹ said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

1. M TR add "answered and"

⁷ But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'¹

1. Isaiah 29:13

⁸ "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men¹."

1. M TR add "the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things"

⁹ He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

¹⁰ For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'¹ and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'²

1. Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
2. Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9

¹¹ But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban¹, that is to say, given to God;"'

1. Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God

¹² then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

¹³ making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

¹⁴ He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.

¹⁵ There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man." [

¹⁶ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!]¹

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¹⁷ When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

¹⁸ He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,

¹⁹ because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, cleansing all the foods?"

²⁰ He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

²¹ For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

²² covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

²³ All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

²⁴ From there he arose, and went away into the region¹ of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice.

1. M TR read "border" instead of "region"

²⁵ For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, immediately¹ came and fell down at his feet.

1. M TR omit "immediately"

²⁶ Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

²⁷ But he¹ said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

1. M TR read "Yeshua" instead of "he"

²⁸ But she answered him, "Yes¹, Sir. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

1. M (Aleph B et al.) reading. NU omits "Yes"

²⁹ He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."

³⁰ And when she went away to her house, she found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone out¹.

1. M TR: "found the demon gone out, and the child lying on the bed"

³¹ Again he departed from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon¹ to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.

1. M TR: "borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came through"

³² They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

³³ He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

³⁴ Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!"

³⁵ Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

³⁶ He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

³⁷ They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"